Seizing the Golden Hour, Tasks, Organization, and Capabilities Required for the Earliest Phase of Stability Operations

Abstract

The enduring civil wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have increasingly given rise to the view that the U.S. interventions in both were fated to fail from the beginning. Other observers, however, contend that crucial mistakes made in the first weeks and months of the U.S. interventions set these countries on downward paths, making recovery difficult. Were the postconflict interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan at high risk of failure from the beginning, or did they become the costly interventions they did because the United States missed opportunities in the early phases of U.S. operations?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2020
Accession Number
AD1096341

Entities

People

  • Derek Eaton
  • James F. Dobbins
  • Nathan Chandler
  • Stephanie Pezard
  • Stephen Watts

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil War
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Employment
  • Health Services
  • Interagency Coordination
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Law
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Force Levels
  • Military History
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Public Policy
  • Recreation
  • Sociopolitics
  • Treaties
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • History

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.